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The past few months have not been good for investors in Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

With the company’s flagship channel Zee TV losing market share to more adventurous rivals in the busy October-to-December quarter, the firm’s shares have lost 6.5% in this period, underperforming the BSE 100 index by nearly 5%.

On Tuesday, the company’s shares were trading 3.1% higher at 140.30 rupees ($3.11) in the early afternoon after having fallen 1.9% in the previous session.

According to TAM, a television viewership measurement agency, Zee TV has fallen to the fourth position in the Hindi general entertainment segment in the week ended Dec. Read More »

Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan on the sets of Kaun Banega Crorepati in Mumbai on Sept. 28.

Amitabh Bachchan received a fitting 68th birthday gift Monday. Known as the “Big B,” the badshah of Bollywood returned to the small screen with a big bang, topping television rating points, or TRP, charts with the debut episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 4.

The one-hour show, based on the U.K.’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” was about seven million viewers short of what the 19th Commonwealth Games being broadcast on state-run Doordarshan garnered in the entire day. The Games had an all-day viewership of 24.6 million on its eighth day, according to TV rating agency Audience Measurement and Analytics Pvt. Ltd.

On a day that saw other TV shows, including “Big Boss 4,” hosted by Bollywood actor Salman Khan, being left behind, the first episode of “Kaun Banega Crorepati” grabbed 17.8 million eyeballs and received a TRP score of 5% —the highest rating among general entertainment channels for the 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m. time slot Monday, rating agency aMap said. Read More »

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